OT: Russian Meteor

[tykurez]

Some of these videos are crazy: Link

CAUTION: That video below is LOUD

 

[B1GEast]

Let's all move to russia, the probability that a deadly meteor will strike twice in the same area is extremely small.

 

[noeynox]

How do we know that meteor was Russian?

 

[ctchamps]

The Russians are claiming it was an American test missile.

The Japanese are claiming it was a North Korean missile.

The Israelis are claiming it was an Iranian missile.

And the Mayans are claiming they had not factored in quantum mechanics in their calculations.

 

[ctchamps]

Let's all move to russia, the probability that a deadly meteor will strike twice in the same area is extremely small.

I'm not sure I'd make that leap. Certainly not after the Vatican was struck twice by lightening after Pope Benedict resigned.

 

[StoweD210]

Isn't the new Bruce Willis movie set in Russia? And then a meteor just decides to show up over the same country?

Something's going on. Don't be surprised if you're able to see dead people soon.

 

[B1GEast]

I'm not sure I'd make that leap. Certainly not after the Vatican was struck twice by lightening after Pope Benedict resigned.

Da comrad fleudslipcon, Da.

 

[Devland]

Let's all move to russia, the probability that a deadly meteor will strike twice in the same area is extremely small.

That's what Wethersfield thought.

http://articles.courant.com/2012-04...0120413_1_wethersfield-middletown-ave-watches

 

[CL82]

How do we know that meteor was Russian?

Well it did seem to be moving pretty fast.

That one was nothing. We got a big one coming inside the geosynronis satilite orbit (<17,500 miles from earth.) The 'rushin' one may have been a chip off the old block. The near miss (change the timing by by 15 minutes or so and you'd lose a city, potentially) that is passing by today wasn't spotted all that long ago and it is a reminder or how vulnerable we potentially are to planetary strikes.

Here's the thing I wonder about. Say an asteroid was going to hit the planet and say there was nothing you do about it. Wouldn't it make sense to tell everyone it was going to be a near miss, so that people wouldn't panic?

Conspiracy Kitty is doubling up on the foil layers just in case.

 

[Dove]

Better them than us.

 

[Palatine]

2012 DA14 would level about 750 square miles if it hit. The good news for Huskies fans is that it will make it's closest pass (or hit) on the other side of the globe near Sumatra. If scientist thought it would hit, there would have been massive evacuations by now and everyone would know.

 

[Kitaman]

Just an embarrassed farter, no real news here.

 

[CL82]

2012 DA14 would level about 750 square miles if it hit. The good news for Huskies fans is that it will make it's closest pass (or hit) on the other side of the globe near Sumatra. If scientist thought it would hit, there would have been massive evacuations by now and everyone would know.

Conspiracy Kitty shakes her head, smiles knowingly and says:
Everyone would know? Palatine, my poor naive Palatine, I will miss you when I climb out of the bunker.

 

[sledog]

We could all be toast in another hour. Asteroid is supposedly same size as the one that made the hole in Arizona.

 

[Dove]

I find it interesting that space groups are saying the Russian meteor is not related to 2012 DA14. On the day an asteroid is passing within 17, 300 miles of Earth we get hit by a 20,000 pound meteor and it's just a coincidence?

Look up, everyone, and be ready.

 

[CL82]

It's clearly a killer asteroid:

We were lucky to escape with our lives!

 

[John]

Some of these videos are crazy: Link

CAUTION: That video below is LOUD

 

[RS9999X]

I find it interesting that space groups are saying the Russian meteor is not related to 2012 DA14. On the day an asteroid is passing within 17, 300 miles of Earth we get hit by a 20,000 pound meteor and it's just a coincidence?

Look up, everyone, and be ready.

It's the only way Science gets any attention. In two months there will be new evidence and a new peer-reviewed opinion issued along with research funding requests to upgrade facilities and staff to ensure make more accurate statements in the future. Yes a new set of beliefs will evolve and the trapped by gravity Russian meteors will get their just due



Sent from my Lumia 920 via Windows 8. Now bite me Apple Droids.

 

[TheChamps990411]

how large was this meteorite?

 

[GlastonTim]

The meteor was a once-in-a-century event, NASA officials said, describing it as a "tiny asteroid."​

The space agency revised its estimate of the meteor's size upward late Friday from 49 feet (15 meters) to 55 feet (17 meters), and its estimated mass from 7,000 to 10,000 tons.​

 

[CL82]

The meteor was a once-in-a-century event, NASA officials said, describing it as a "tiny asteroid."​

The space agency revised its estimate of the meteor's size upward late Friday from 49 feet (15 meters) to 55 feet (17 meters), and its estimated mass from 7,000 to 10,000 tons.​

That's the one that hit. The one that flew by was significantly larger.

A 150-foot asteroid hurtled through Earth's backyard Friday, coming within an incredible 17,150 miles and making the closest known flyby for a rock of its size. As asteroids go, this one is a shrimp. The one that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago was 6 miles across. But this rock could still do immense damage if it ever struck given its 143,000-ton heft, releasing the energy equivalent of 2.4 million tons of TNT and wiping out 750 square miles.
By comparison, NASA estimated that the meteor that exploded over Russia was much smaller — about 49 feet wide and 7,000 tons before it hit the atmosphere, or one-third the size of the passing asteroid.